A drive through the country
Last week I took the opportunity to drive up to the north end of Tuttle Creek Lake with a friend. On the way back home we stopped at the Oldsburg Marsh area to get some photographs of the sunset. I was able to get down to the shoreline and catch the sunset reflecting off the […]
Making Of: The Last Sunset of 2010
I’m going to be making some changes to my blog in 2011 and one of the things I’m planning on is to have several ‘categories’ of blog posts that I make on a regular basis. One of these is going to be “making of” posts where I talk about the making of 1 photograph. This […]
Just 10 Photographs from 2010
I’ve noticed several photographers posting sets of their 10 favorite photographs from the past year so I thought that might be interesting to try. Turns out it was an interesting exercise digging through all the photographs I made this past year, but not so easy to select 10 for this post. Initially I had planned […]
Picture in picture
The photograph above was taken a couple of weeks at sunset. I had just pulled off the road into a scenic overlook near Carnahan Creek where I was out with one of my photography classes. As everyone was getting out of the vehicle, we noticed the sun going down behind a hill. With the sun […]
Road Trip part 4. The Final Stretch.
Time to wrap up this series of posts on my road trip through Kansas. After leaving the Scott County Lake, Dad and I were headed east for the drive home. We stopped at Cedar Bluff Reservoir, another one of those locations that I had been to when I was growing up (physically, I still haven’t […]
Clouds, sunset and slow shutter speeds.
Fall is my favorite time of year for many reasons, but one of the main ones is the weather. I’ve never been a hot weather person and I love the cool temperatures of fall. We have been having some nice weather lately, but….we haven’t had hardly any cloudy skies the past couple of weeks. Almost […]
Road Trip, part I: Down to Coldwater
Earlier this month I had the great pleasure of taking a 3 day, 1100 mile photography road trip through south central and western Kansas with my Dad (who is also a photography addict). We had a great time and it was great to get to spend time with my Dad driving through country we both […]
A (lucky?) dramatic morning at Konza Prairie and Pillsbury Crossing
This past weekend I went to the Konza Prairie Biological Station’s “Konza Prairie Visitors Day.” Konza is a roughly 8600 acre area of native tallgrass prairie owned and operated by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University for conducting long term ecological research. While there are public hiking trails available, much of the prairie is understandably […]
The moon, the wind, and working with what you are given.
Earlier this week I was out to photograph the moonrise (which was the “harvest moon” on the 23rd). I headed out to Wildflower Road near the Carnahan Creek area which is a great spot to photograph the moonrise. While waiting for the moon to show up I did a bit of scouting and I was […]
Stockdale Park, another favorite location
In my last post I wrote about photographing a sunset from a familiar stretch of riverbank below the dam at Tuttle Creek Lake. A few days later I found myself photographing sunrise (of all things!) at another familiar place…Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake. I have taken a lot of photographs at Stockdale, the trees […]